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It’s easy to criticize the media for overemphasizing someone’s prison exposure, and easier still to excoriate prosecutors for sweetheart deals.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

Jackson hasn’t come here to excoriate the 1 percent, yet I found myself wondering how this novel might look through Berta’s lens.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Contributing to a debate in parliament last month MP Sam George, a prominent critic of the project, quoted the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament to excoriate the government.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2023

And as much as he likes to excoriate the “fake news,” he is drawn irresistibly to the spotlight.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020

“We need to take care of this. It’s too far gone. We have to excoriate the skin and replace your G-tube to purge the infection.”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

These omissions feel particularly glaring in light of how Aly excoriates the scholars of the era for viewing the islanders as history-less primitives who simply “died out” after contact with the modern world.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Joyce also excoriates the religious and political leaders tasked with addressing the needs of the Irish in the figures of Father John Conmee and the British Viceroy.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022

But Clegg, who started working for Harris in 2008, said there is a difference between a tough boss and one who excoriates staff.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

Why does a writer who, on one page, excoriates Joseph Conrad for cliché, for the sin of “in the twinkling of an eye,” so blandly deploy “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” — and worse?

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

Ordinarily, no discharge occurs at first from the nasal surface, but as the disease continues, if the type remain severe, defluxion of thin muco-pus takes place from the Schneiderian surface, which frequently excoriates the cheek.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Now, Warsh will find himself on the inside again, working with the people he’s excoriated.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Following this, on X, he regularly excoriated Altman for “stealing a charity” and dubbed him “Scam Altman.”

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

He has excoriated federal officials for erroneously linking vaccines to autism, warning that the administration is endangering the lives of infants and young children in scaling back childhood vaccine recommendations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

For LGB dissenters, many of whom grew up closeted and relied on acceptance among their peers, being excoriated by their gay and lesbian communities is particularly painful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

A few scientists had challenged Meggers’s ideas; Roosevelt excoriated them from top to bottom.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Arday, who was appointed in a blaze of publicity in 2023 as the youngest-ever black professor to Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday, aged 41, after weeks of excoriating media reports.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

“Rebel English Academy” reprises the excoriating humor of that debut, but only erratically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But the judge gave Baca three years, excoriating him for abusing the public trust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025

Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor